France\u2019s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched<\/p>\n
France\u2019s research minister said a French scientist <\/strong><\/em>was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned with concern that a French researcher\u201d on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) \u201cwho was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled\u201d, Philippe Baptiste, France\u2019s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde<\/a>. \u201cThis measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher\u2019s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration\u2019s research policy,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France\u2019s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched France\u2019s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}